DCS-950G Motion Time Stamp

[HooyerD]

This camera rocks. Another minor issue. On the motion recording all the video files are always timed on the hour. The creation date of the video files within the shared folder are always like 4:00pm 5:00pm etc. Anyone know what causes this? I don't understand why the time is not the actual time the file was created.

[Aragorn]

[HooyerD]

I guess I just don't see the real benefit of the file creation time being changed to match the top of each hour, instead of the actual time the file was created. Windows explorer allows for date/time sort easy enough. So a huge folder of files really wouldn't be any different. I think this is one of those features that some goonball behind a desk thought would be useful. In reality I want accuracy. The Cameras built in date/clock changes easy enough for the time stamp at the bottom of the video. Reset it, unplug it, make certain changes and I'm always back to 1969 for the date. I would rather have the real time and date the video files were created, not a by the hour modified time. That gives a creative defense attorney too much wiggle room if the videos were to actually be used for legal purposes. The more I think about it, it is just pure stupidity to be modifying the file creation time.

[Aragorn]

I have no idea which file name you got. Did you use "Smart Recording"? The file name should be like this "smart20050323_153125.avi", right? You can see the actual time in there.